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Johns Hopkins University Press Regulatory Politics in Transition
Book SynopsisMoreover, it explores the impact of globalization trends and international regimes upon the politics of regulation and asks whether a new global regime is on the horizon.
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Institutional Presidency
Book SynopsisBeginning with the institutional presidency that emerged during the Roosevelt administration, this new edition includes a revised chapter on the Bush administration and a new chapter on Bill Clinton.
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Voyage of the Argo
Book SynopsisIt is this kind of droll surprise that drew me to undertake the translation of a work that is not, I freely confess, well known."-David SlavittTrade ReviewA playful version of Valerius that is accessible and enjoyable. -- Robert V. Albis New England Classical Journal
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Presidents Agenda
Book SynopsisAlthough there are important differences between the two Presidents, not the least of which is Bush's high proportion of small-scale, old ideas, the two share a pronounced tendency to look backward for inspiration rather than forward."-from the Preface
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Johns Hopkins University Press Locating American Studies
Book SynopsisA collection of 17 essays first printed in "American Quarterly", the journal of the American Studies Association. To mark the Association's 50th anniversary, the editor has brought together works which provide a window into the history and evolution of the practice of American studies.Trade ReviewA dense but intellectually rewarding volume. -- Paul Giles Journal of American Studies
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Johns Hopkins University Press A Nation of Steel The Making of Modern America
Book SynopsisA Nation of Steel offers a detailed and fascinating look at an industry that has had a profound impact on American life.Trade ReviewIn what will surely become a standard history of steelmaking, Misa integrates that industry's development with the industrial growth of America in the half-century following the Civil War. Involved in the interplay between steel production and the production of America were such developments as the railroads' demand for steel rails following the Civil War, the role of urbanization and especially tall-building construction, the armor plate requirements of the Navy, and the emergence and growth of the automotive industry. Science, Technology and Society This truly outstanding book will become required reading in the history of technology. The story of steel is important in its own right, and Thomas Misa writes with remarkable clarity and succinctness... The emphasis upon user-producer interactions allows Misa to focus on the social significance of technologies and to bring out nuances and contingencies in the development of critical technologies and industries. -- Edwin T. Layton Technology and Culture Each of Misa's six case studies is fruitful, and together they capture the enormously diverse and complex influences on technological change. Taken as a whole, this study constitutes a massive and successful assault on the neo-classical paradigm... This book will profoundly shape the way scholars understand how technologies 'are not only socially constructed but society-shaping. -- David Bensman American Historical Review A brief review can not do justice to the subtlety with which Misa links steelmaking to a larger socioeconomic environment... Based on new information from archival and other primary sources, this well-written, richly textured work greatly expands our knowledge of American industrialization. -- W. David Lewis Journal of American History A splendid overview of an industry whose fortunes were inextricably intertwined with the railroads... The protions that treat the dynamic interrelations of the steel industry and the railroads clearly stand as the most sophisticated treatment of this complex topic that has yet appeared in print... An immensely rewarding book. -- Robert C. Post Railroad History
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Johns Hopkins University Press Collaborative Learning Higher Education
Book SynopsisAs a result, their fine education and superb reputations as scholars and critics may in some cased actually subvert their ability to understand knowledge as a social construct, learinng as an adult social process, and teaching as a role of leadership among adults.Trade ReviewCollaborative Learning is an important book. One of my longstanding complaints has been that most of the theories so widely quoted by scholars today have not been examined in light of their pedagogical implications. Bruffee has done that; we all need to do that. -- Pat Belanoff Journal of Higher Education
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Johns Hopkins University Press Women in the Inquisition
Book SynopsisThe accounts, representing the experiences of girls and women from different classes and geographical regions, include the trials' vastly divergent outcomes ranging from burning at the stake to exoneration.Trade ReviewThe essays are all very polished, extremely informative and give a most interesting cross-section of themes. -- Henry Kamen Revista Canadiense De Estudios Hispanicos All of the essays here are of high quality and display a careful, probing reading of problematic sources. Far from being simply a series of microhistories, these essays, viewed collectively, highlight important issues in the study of the Inquisition, the role of women, and the complexities of familial and social relations in the early modern period. -- Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt Sixteenth Century Journal
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Johns Hopkins University Press General Psychopathology
Book SynopsisIn "General Psychopathology", perhaps his most important contribution to the Heidelberg school, Jaspers critiques the scientific aspirations of psychotherapy, arguing that the realm of the human must be supplemented by an understanding of the "meaning-relations" experienced by human beings.Trade ReviewKarl Jaspers was only thirty when he amassed the data and expounded the methods and interpretations that give his Psychopathologie a place at the side of James' monumental Principles of Psychology. Like James, he later turned to philosophy. He certainly shared James' radically empirical spirit; he documented more systematically the challenge to the methodological imperialism to which psychopathology was subject in his day. -- Peter A. Bertocci Review of MetaphysicsTable of ContentsVolume 2Part III. The Casual Connections of Psychic LifeChapter 9. Effects of Environment and of the Body on Psychic LifeChapter 10. HeredityChapter 11. The Explanatory Theories—Their Meaning and ValuePart IV. The Conception of the Psychic Life as a WholeChapter 12. The Synthesis of Disease EntitiesChapter 13. The Human SpeciesChapter 14. Biographical StudyPart V. The Abnormal Psyche in Society and History (Social and historical aspects of the psychoses and the personality-disorder)Part VI. The Human Being as a WholeAppendix1. Examination of patients2. The funstion of therapy3. Prognosis4. The history of psychopathology as a scienceName IndexGeneral Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Frontiers of the Roman Empire
Book SynopsisYet the very permeability of the frontiers, Whittaker contends, permitted a transformation of Roman society, breathing new life into the empire rather than causing its complete extinction.Trade ReviewWhittaker has made the first systematic attempt to integrate the study of the Roman frontiers and imperial policy with that of the frontier economy and society. All those interested in Roman frontier studies and imperialism will be grateful for a book which discusses old questions along new lines and which raises new questions of general importance. Journal of Roman Studies
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Silent World of Doctor and Patient
Book SynopsisIn a new foreword to this edition of The Silent World of Doctor and Patient, Alexander Morgan Capron outlines the changes in medical ethics practice that have occurred since the book was first published in 1984, paying particular attention to the hotly debated issues of physician-assisted suicide and informed consent in managed care.Trade ReviewA remarkable book... Goes a long way towards ending the silence that ultimately dehumanizes both doctor and patient. Business Week What gives this book unusual power is Dr. Katz's understanding of the historical origins of doctors' silence and his perceptive analysis of the relationship between doctor and patient that has led to this silent state. Wall Street Journal Jay Katz's poetic manifesto... will no doubt long be noted as a milestone on the rehumanization effort. New England Journal of Medicine A thoughtful analysis of the doctor-patient relationship and informed consent: clearly a labor of love based on years in medicine, law, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis. New Physician As compelling and vital as it was when it appeared two decades ago. Tragically its critique of contemporary medicine still is right... A classic. It merits attention and discussion. -- Stanley J. Reiser, MD, MPA, PhD Journal of the American Medical Association A much-needed addition to the bioethical canon. -- Syd M. Johnson MetapsychologyTable of ContentsContents: Foreword to the Johns Hopkins Edition: The Once and Future Silent World, by Alexander Morgan Capron Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter I. Physicians and Patients: A History of Silence Chapter II. Physicians and Citizens: The Struggle for Freedom from Lay Control Chapter III. Judges, Physicians, and Patients: The Legal Doctrine of Informed Consent Chapter IV. Sharing Authority: The Willingness to Trust Chapter V. Respecting Autonomy: The Struggle over Rights and Capacities Chapter VI. Respecting Autonomy: The Obligation for Conversation Chapter VII. Acknowledging Uncertainty: The Confrontation of Knowledge and Ignorance Chapter VIII. The Abandonment of Patients: A Final Argument against Silence Appendix A. Code of Ethics of the American Medical Association (1847) Appendix B. American Medical Association Principles of Medical Ethics (1980)NotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Technology in the Hospital
Book SynopsisIn a concluding chapter he applies the book's historical insights to medical practice today-asking why, for example, modern diagnostic tests have not been used to give doctors more time to spend with patients.Trade Review[Howell's] early twentieth-century portrait is fresh and important, as an analysis of medical practice just coming to grips with the technological world. Nature I recommend this delightful book to anyone interested in the history of medicine. -- Seymour Perry New England Journal of Medicine
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Johns Hopkins University Press Institutions and Economic Development
Book SynopsisContributors include economists Christopher Clague, Robert Klitgaard, Peter Murrell, Mancur Olson, Vernon Ruttan, and Vito Tanzi, and political scientists Stephan Haggard, Margaret Levi, and Elinor Ostrom.
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Johns Hopkins University Press Greek Mythology
Book SynopsisThis introductory text offers a chronological account of the main Greek myths in surviving literary and artistic sources, and also examines the history of interpretation of Greek mythology from the 17th century to the present. It examines the relationship between Greek myths and epic poetry.Trade ReviewGraf's Greek Mythology immediately established itself, when it was first published in German in 1985, as the best introduction then available. Historical in three senses-a brief history of theories of myth, a view of the historically changing roles of myth, a sense of the processes of inventing, forgetting, and renewing myth-the book's strength lies in its combining an understanding of myth as essentially narrative, with an appreciation of the issue of authorship... This is a new edition, with footnotes, numerous minor alterations to the text, and a thoroughly updated bibliography. Times Literary Supplement The best general introduction to Greek mythology in English. -- Lowell Edmunds Bryn Mawr Classical Review Full of compelling insights... A superior work on Greek mythology done by a first-rate scholar. -- Paul Properzio New England Classical Newsletter and Journal
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Johns Hopkins University Press Early Greek Myth
Book SynopsisTimothy Gantz traces the development of each myth in narrative form and summarizes the written and visual evidence in which the specific details of the story appear.Trade ReviewA compendium of narrative variants useful for anyone wanting seriously to analyze a Greek myth. Times Literary Supplement Nothing short of remarkable... This book will certainly become a staple of all classical libraries for years to come. Bryn Mawr Classical Review Its accessible format, straightforward readability, and economical price should put it where it belongs, on the shelf of anyone who teaches mythology, at whatever level. Classical OutlookTable of ContentsContents:VOLUME 1 The Early Gods The Olympians Olympos, the Underworld, and Minor Divinities Prometheus and the First Men The Line of Deukalion Other Early Families The Royal House of Athens Minos and Krete Theseus' Later Exploits Perseus and Bellerophontes The Daughters of Thestios Iason and the Argo Herakles VOLUME 2 Thebes The Line of Tantalos The Trojan War The Return from Troy Other M
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Johns Hopkins University Press Presidential Institutions and Democratic Politics
Book SynopsisBoth trends in European parliamentary systems and the dramatic changes within French presidential institutions suggest that scholars should temper broad generalizations about presidential or parliamentary government.
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Johns Hopkins University Press Major Taylor
Book SynopsisBased on ten years of research-including extensive interviews with Major Taylor's 91-year old daughter-this is the dramatic story of a young black man who, against prodigious odds, rose to fame and stardom in the tempestuous world of international professional bicycle racing a century ago.Trade ReviewAs Andrew Ritchie's excellent biography demonstrates, [Taylor] became a cycling star not only through natural talent. He also had what one might call a force of dignity. -- Tim Hilton Times Literary Supplement A point made by Mr. Ritchie... in this earnest and well-researched study is that Taylor, only the second black after the boxer George Dixon to win a world championship, hardly left a trace that he had passed. -- Samuel Abt New York Times Book Review Member of an oppressed race, hero in a nation with limited historical memory, this man, who had been so well known and whose life was so interesting, has been virtually forgotten. Ritchie's book admirably recaptures the story for us. -- Elliott J. Gorn Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. PrologueChapter 2. Early Guidance and InspirationChapter 3. Bicycle Boom and Jim CrowChapter 4. Precocious Teenager, Colored Champion of AmericaChapter 5. Rising StarChapter 6. New Horizons, New OppositionChapter 7. The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the WorldChapter 8. Champion of America at LastChapter 9. SuperstarChapter 10. World Traveler and International CelebrityChapter 11. Comeback and DeclineChapter 12. Difficult AdjustmentChapter 13. Autobiography and IllnessChapter 14. Chicago TragedyAuthor's PostscriptAbout the PhotographsIllustrations, Picture Sources, and CreditsNotes and SourcesGlossary of Bicycle Racing TerminologyBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Autobiographical Subject
Book SynopsisFelicity Nussbaum, co-recipient of the American Association for 18th-Century Studies' Louis Gottschalk Prize, considers the convergence of genre, gender and class in this reassessment of autobiographical writing in England from John Bunyan to Hester Thrale.Trade ReviewAcutely analyzes the construction of gendered character in canonical British autobiographical texts and provides provocative explorations outside the canon, particularly among first-person narratives by women. Diacritics [Nussbaum's] achievement... is profound. The theoretical framework is clear and consistent, the range of historical specificity broad and convincing, the analysis of specific texts sophisticated and compelling, the prose straightforward and free of obfuscating jargon. The Autobiographical Subject is rich and richly rewarding for scholars of the eighteenth century. It deserves to be read by everyone who thinks about autobiographical practice. -- Sidonie Smith a/b: Auto/Biography Studies Felicity Nussbaum considers the convergence of genre, gender, and class in an important reassessment of autobiographical writing in England from John Bunyan to Hester Thrale. The Autobiographical Subject, with its combination of provocative theory and sound scholarship, deserves a wide readership. Felicity Nussbaum's insights demand the attention of eighteenth-century scholars, feminist critics, and cultural historians, while the central questions raised by the book-how to define the 'self'? why write, why revise, and especially, why publish an autobiography?-are of interest to everyone. -- Fiona Stafford Review of English Studies An exemplary model of political criticism. Eighteenth-Century Fiction In The Autobiographical Subject Felicity Nussbaum sees autobiography as the point of convergence of a set of phenomena linking class, genre and gender in the eighteenth century; and traces the new possibilities of definition of a middle-class self, and assertion of female identity in print, within the form... The volume makes an important contribution to feminist discussion of the period. The Year's Work in English Studies In The Autobiographical Subject Felicity Nussbaum sees autobiography as the point of convergence of a set of phenomena linking class, genre and gender in the eighteenth century; and traces the new possibilities of definition of a middle-class self, and assertion of female identity in print, within the form... The volume makes an important contribution to feminist discussion of the period. The Year's Work in English StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. The Ideology of GeneChapter 2. The Politics of SubjectivityChapter 3. Dissenting Subjects: Bunyan's Grace AboundingChapter 4. Methodized Subjects: Johns Wesley's JournalsChapter 5. Manly Subjects: Boswell's Journals and The Life of JohnsonChapter 6. The Gender of CharacterChapter 7. "Of Woman's Seed": Women's Spiritual AutobiograohiesChapter 8. Heteroclites: The Scandalous MemoirsChapter 9. Managing Women: Thrale's "Family Book" and ThralianaNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Hippocrates in a World of Pagans and Christians
Book SynopsisIn compromise, the Church accepted Hippocratic medicine with the proviso that the Christian physician shun all pagan or heretical interpretations of naturalism-he must not, for example, believenature to be divine, the soul a mere function of the brain, or himself the true savior of the sick.Trade ReviewThe fascinating story of how Hippocrates and the Oath (which is unlikely to have been written by the great Coan doctor himself) became Christianized is the theme of this wise and humane book... Historians, theologians, and doctors alike will benefit from this clear, learned, and courteous exposition of an enthralling theme. Times Literary Supplement The reader can only salute [Temkin] as one of the greatest humanist physicians of our time. New England Journal of Medicine
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Johns Hopkins University Press Sweet Home
Book SynopsisHe explores the ways in which their writing presents "alternative spacesthat exist alongside of, and often counter to, the visible configurations of the dominant culture.Trade ReviewA substantial contribution to both the discourse of defining the African American literary tradition and the exegesis of the literature of the American city. Callaloo This work will be hard to ignore, for it addresses the challenges to and possibilities for African Americans in cities now and incenturies to come. Library Journal
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Johns Hopkins University Press Money Interest and Banking in Economic
Book SynopsisMaxwell Fry includes new chapters on finance in endogenous growth models, foreign direct investment and the accumulation of foreign debt, and fiscal activities of central banks in developing countries.Trade ReviewPraise for the first edition: "Economists and students interested in this area will find it indispensable."--'Journal of Economic Literature.' "A must for academicians and policymakers."--'Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking'Table of ContentsList of figuresList of TablesList of AcronymsPreface and AcknowledgementsPart I. Theoretical Models of Financial DevelopmentChapter 1. Keynesian Monetary Growth Models and the Rationale for Financial RepressionChapter 2. The McKinnon-Shaw Financial Development FrameworkChapter 3. The McKinnon-Shaw SchoolChapter 4. Financial Development in Endogenous Growth Models Chapter 5. Financial Repression and Capital inflowsChapter 6. Critics of Financial LiberalizationChapter 7. The Required Reserve Ratio in Financial DevelopmentPart II. Econometric Testing of Financial Development ModelsChapter 8. Effects of Financial Conditions on Saving, investment, and GrowthChapter 9. Empirical Evidence on Transmission Mechanisms and income DistributionChapter 10. Effects of Financial liberalization on Inflation and Short-Run GrowthChapter 11. Monetary Policies in Pacific Basin Developing EconomiesChapter 12. Foreign Capital Flows to Developing CountriesPart III. Microeconomic and institutional Aspects of Financial DevelopmentChapter 13. Financial Institutions, Instruments, and MarketsChapter 14. Financial Institutions and Markets in Developing CountriesChapter 15. Government Intervention in Financial SectorPart IV. Monetary and Financial Policies in Economic DevelopmentChapter 16. Macroeconomic Environment and Macroeconomic PoliciesChapter 17. Central Banks and Deficit Finance in Developing CountriesChapter 18. Interest Rate and Selective Credit PoliciesChapter 19. Policies for Financial DevelopmentBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The American Face of Edgar Allan Poe
Book SynopsisRenza, Shawn Rosenheim, and Laura Saltz.Trade Review"Avoiding the mere Frenchification of Poe that was dominant in the eighties, on the one hand, but, on the other, steadfastly refusing to return to the traditional formalist and thematic style which never really accounted for the French Poe, these essays make a wonderful case for a vitally social Poe--returning him home again, but with a difference that makes all the difference. They do so because their authors are at once theoretically current and widely experienced with the American canon. And they do so, even more, because they are quality essays, valuable individually as well as collectively."--Kenneth Dauber, State University of New York, Buffalo
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Two Majorities The Issue Context of Modern
Book SynopsisProvocatively, the authors argue that each party's best strategy for success is not to try to take popular positions on the whole range of issues, but to focus attention on the party's most successful cluster of issues.Trade ReviewByron Shafer and William Claggett have given us an important book. While attending ably to their primary objective of advancing our understanding of the contemporary partisan realignment, the authors manage as well to contribute significantly to another subject of even greater scope. -- Everett Carll Ladd Public Opinion Quarterly The stated scholarly mission of the book is to tease out the structure of American political opinion in the late twentieth century: the central concerns of that opinion, their roots and the distribution of preferences on them, and the gathering and dividing of preferences in partisan ways. In addition, Shafer and Claggett consider the implications of an opinion structure for practical-and successful-politicking. -- Edward Sidlow Perspectives on Political Science Overall, The Two Majorities is an interesting and useful study of public opinion. It provides readers with a good picture of public opinion and it connects that picture with sound strategic advice for each party about what sort of issues to emphasize and to ignore. -- Eric R. A. N. Smith American Political Science ReviewTable of ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesSeries Editor's ForewordPrefaceChapter 1. The Notion of an Issue Context: Public Wishes and the Two MajoritiesChapter 2. Dimensions of Political Opinion: "Great Issues" for the Modern EraChapter 3. A Structure for Political Opinion: Political Parties and Partisan PreferencesChapter 4. A Structure for Political Opinion: Social Groups and Group PreferencesChapter 5. A Framework for Politicking: Parties, Groups, and the Issue ContextChapter 6. The Shape of Policy Options: Activists, Followers, and Political PreferencesChapter 7. The Shape of Policy Options: The War inside the PartiesChapter 8. An Issue Context for Contemporary Politics: The Two Majorities and Partisan ConflictAppendix: Texts for Survey QuestionsNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Reading George Steiner
Book SynopsisGeorge Steiner is a central figure on the contemporary intellectual scene. In this book, a group of eminent American and European critics offer an assessment of Steiner's work.Trade ReviewThe collection is a model of editorial acuity, the essays persuasive and eloquent, ensuring that by the end almost every aspect of the Steiner oeuvre has been mentioned, if not discussed. -- Dan Gunn Times Literary Supplement
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Johns Hopkins University Press National Culture and the New Global System
Book SynopsisSurveying recent cultural history and theory, Buell shows how our understanding of cultural production relates closely to transformations in models of the world order.Trade ReviewHis obvious erudition regarding a number of theorectical fields, including Marxism, postcolonialism, globalism, and Asian-American and Afican-American ethnic theory is impressive... Buell provides thorough and often illuminating readings of key works by several authors of fiction who are concerned with issues of globalism and various nationalisms, including most prominentely James Ngugi, Bharati Mukherjee, Tanizaki Junichiro, Maxine Hong Kingston, Mishima Yukio, and Nuruddin Farah. -- Harold K. Bush, Jr. College Literature In this comprehensive book, ranging in reference from nationalism in Japan to ethnicity in the United States, from world-system theory to diaspora, from interpretation of novels to readings in contemporary cultural theory, Buell patiently reflects on the ways culture has been conceived since World War II and is being reconceived today. As a literary critic and cultural theorist, Buell tries to show that we can see in culture, as much as in economics, 'globalization processes at work.' The value of the study is its perspective. -- Gregory Jusdanis International Migration Review National Culture does provide the energetic and persevering reader with a wealth of information on theoretical perspectives on global culture relationships... The penultimate chapter, 'Outside the Marxian Tradition' is particularly strong. -- Sarah M. Corse Contemporary Sociology
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Johns Hopkins University Press Unbank the Fire Visions for the Education of
Book SynopsisAll that is necessary is for this society to remove the ashes that historically and presently stunt their development."Trade Review"For too long parents, educators, and administrators have allowed the sparks of learning in African American children to be covered by excuses, denials, and side-steps. To reverse these patterns of academic failure among urban Black youth, Janice Hale makes it clear we must first unbank the fire."--'V. P. Franklin, Drexel University'
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Johns Hopkins University Press Money Language and Thought
Book SynopsisHe demonstrates how literature and philosophy have been driven to account self-critically for a "money of the mindthat pervades all discourse, and concludes the book with a discomforting thesis about the cultural and political limits of literature and philosophy in the modern world.Trade ReviewShell offers admirably close readings [which are] often brilliant... Summary could do little more than hint at the riches laid open. The Eighteenth Century A remarkable piece of work. Valuable for a wide range of readers from the expert to the inquiring generalist. Religious Studies Review
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Johns Hopkins University Press Ethical Land Use Principles of Policy and
Book SynopsisAn examination of the ethical dimensions of land use decisions and policy, on the premise is that all land use decisions invariably involve ethical choices. Beatley is co-author, with Philip Berke, of "Planning for Earthquakes".Trade ReviewThis volume is the first of its kind in which ethical dimensions of land use are both stated and encouraged... A valuable addition to libraries in environmental studies, geography, and planning. Choice
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Johns Hopkins University Press Heuretics The Logic of Invention
Book SynopsisIn Heuretics-a word defined as "the branch of logic that treats the art of discovery or invention"-Gregory Ulmer sets forth new methods appropriate for conducting cultural studies research in an age of electronic hypermedia.Trade ReviewHere is offered a scheme for creating multileveled texts that are both creative and critical and infinitely generative, and that invite readers to connect electronic media to the unconscious. Most readers will not fail to appreciate the wit of the exposition and the clarity of the creative method... [A] stunning performance. -- Tom Conley Philosophy and Literature
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Johns Hopkins University Press Cities and Buildings Skyscrapers Skid Rows and
Book SynopsisIn offering an account of the relationship between urban architecture - especially vernacular architecture - and the spatial arrangement and development of cities in North America, this book shows how changes in the built environment parallel changes in urban economies and human culture.Trade ReviewAn ideal companion volume to any of the more traditional texts emphasizing urban-economic and urban-social geography... I've enjoyed reading the book, it is a useful addition to my urban bookshelf, and a wonderful source of information to add colorful anecdotes to my undergraduate urban geography course. -- Ian Maclachlan H-Urban.
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Johns Hopkins University Press The NonDarwinian Revolution
Book SynopsisTimely and cogent in its aims and arguments, it should prompt debate and discussion leading to fresh critical and historiographical insights concerning all those topics that historians of science, of society, and of culture associate with 'Darwinism' and 'evolutionism.'British Journal of the History of ScienceTrade ReviewTimely and cogent in its aims and arguments, it should prompt debate and discussion leading to fresh critical and historiographical insights concerning all those topics that historians of science, of society, and of culture associate with 'Darwinism' and 'evolutionism.'. British Journal of the History of ScienceTable of ContentsList of FiguresPrefaceChapter 1. The Myth of the Darwinan RevolutionChapter 2. Darwin's OriginalityChapter 3. The Impact of the OriginChapter 4. Evolutionism TriumphantChapter 5. From Darwin to Modern DarwinismChapter 6. Human EvolutionChapter 7. Social DarwinismChapter 8. A Cultural Revolution?Chapter 9. Toward a New Historiography of EvolutionismRefencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Aesthetics of Murder A Study in Romantic
Book SynopsisSince then, both traditional art forms and the modern mass media have contributed to the growing aestheticization of violence.Trade ReviewWell-written and often brilliant. Virginia Quarterly Review Chances are that you'll have a hard time fighting his suasive thesis. Voice Literary SupplementTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction Part I ONE Murder as (Fine) Art TWO Murder as (Pure) Action THREE Murder as (Carnal) Knowledge Part II FOUR Mimesis and Murder FIVE Catharsis and Murder AFTERWORD Writing after Murder Notes Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press The American Renaissance Reconsidered
Book SynopsisPease, Walter Benn Michaels, and Allen Grossman.Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1. Slavery, Revolution, and the American RenaissanceChapter 2. The Other American RenaissanceChapter 3. Poe's Secret AutobiographyChapter 4. F.O. Matthiessen: Authorizing an American RenaissanceChapter 5. Moby Dick and the Cold WarChapter 6. Romance and Real EstateChapter 7. The Poetics of Union in Whitman and Lincoln: An Inquiry toward the Relationship of Art and Policy
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Johns Hopkins University Press Since Megalopolis The Urban Writings of Jean
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewCollects some of the outstanding writings on the city by Gottmann since 1961, many of them out of print in English . . . The book is a minor masterpiece, a sympathetic but emphatic rebuttal of the presumptions of those who would plan our lives.—New ScientistTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. The Opening of the Oyster ShellPart I. Urban OriginsChapter 1. Orbits: The Ancient Mediterranean Tradition of Urban NetworksPart II. Urban CentralityChapter 2. Urban Centrality and the Interweaving of Quaternary ActivitiesChapter 3. Capital CitiesChapter 4. The Study of Former CapitalsPart III. City and MetropolisChapter 5. Economics, Esthetics, and Ethics in Modern UrbanizationChapter 6. The Growing City as a Social and Political ProcessPart IV. MegalopolisChapter 7. How Large Can Cities Grow?Chapter 8. Megalopolitan Systems around the WorldChapter 9. Planning and Metamorphosis in JapanPart V. The Transactional CityChapter 10. Office Work and the Evolution of CitiesChapter 11. Urban Settlements and TelecommunicationsChapter 12. The Recent Evolution of OxfordPart VI. Living in the Modern MetropolisChapter 13. The Ethics of Living at High DensitiesChapter 14. Urbanization and Employment: Toward a General TheoryChapter 15. The Metamorphosis of the Modern MetropolisPart VII. ImplicationsChapter 16. Transatlantic Orbits: The Interplay in the Evolution of CitiesUrban Publications by Jean GottmannIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The New Urban Landscape
Book SynopsisIn "one of the best books available on the changing physical form of the nineteenth-century city in America (Arnold R. Alanen, University of Wisconsin, Madison), Schuyler analyzes efforts by the civic leaders of that time to define a new urban culture by creating open recreational and residential areas for growing cities.Trade ReviewThe best single volume on nineteenth-century park development, and no existing work describes the origins and evolution of the naturalistic vision as capably as The New Urban Landscape. Moreover, Schuyler handles his subject with admirable economy and grace. Reviews in American History An important contribution to our understanding of a design perspective that fostered a strong American heritage of urban parks and suburban spaces. -- Mary Corbin Sies Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsPart I. Changing Conceptions of Urban FormChapter 1. Flawed Visions: The Lessons of Washington and New YorkChapter 2. Toward a Redefinition of Urban Form and CultureChapter 3. The Didactic Landscape: Rural CemeteriesPart II. The Evolution of the Urban ParkChapter 4. The Ideology of the Public ParkChapter 5. The Naturalistic Landscape: Central ParkChapter 6. Cities and Parks: The Lessons of Central ParkChapter 7. Parks, Parkways, and Park SystemsPart III. The New Urban LandscapeChapter 8. Urban Decentralization and the Domestic LandscapeChapter 9. The New City: A House with Many RoomsChapter 10. Transformation: The Neoclassical CityscapeNotesBibliographic EssayIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press A House Divided Sectionalism and Civil War
Book SynopsisA well-written, traditional, and brief narrative of the period from the end of the Mexican War to the conclusion of the Civil War... Shows the value of traditional political history which is too often ignored in our rush to reconstruct the social texture of society. -- Civil War HistoryTrade ReviewA provocative starting point for discussion, further study, and independent assessment. -- William H. Pease History A well-writtem, traditional, and brief narrative of the period from the end of the Mexican War to the conclusion of the Civil War... Shows the value of traditional political history which is too often ignored in our rush to reconstruct the social texture of society. -- Thomas D. Morris Civil War History Sewell's style is fast moving and very readable... An excellent volume summarizing the stormy period prior to the war as well as a look at the military and home fronts. Civil War Book Exchange and Collector's Newsletter The best short treatment of the sectional conflict and Civil War available... Sewell convincingly demonstrates that the conflict was a revolutionary experience that fundamentally transformed the Republic and its people, and left a racial heritage that still confronts America today. The result is a poignant discussion of the central tragedy of American history and its legacy for the nation. -- William E. Gienapp Georgia Historical Quarterly Tailored for adoption in college courses. Students will find that the author has a keen eye for vivid quotations, giving his prose welcome immediacy. -- Daniel W. Crofts Journal of Southern HistoryTable of ContentsEditor's ForewordChapter 1. The American People at Mid-CenturyChapter 2. The Legacy of the Mexican WarChapter 3. "A Hell of a Storm"Chapter 4. "And the War Came"Chapter 5. Call to ArmsChapter 6. The War at HomeChapter 7. The Blue and the GrayChapter 8. The Destruction of SlaveryChapter 9. Looking Ahead: Wartime ReconstructionBibliographical EssayIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The New American State
Book Synopsis'Trade ReviewA timely and well-conceived collection of six essays that contributes to the history of the growth of the modern American state by focusing on the development of bureaucracies in selected areas of public policy since 1945. Perspective
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Johns Hopkins University Press Science in the Federal Government
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe qualities that made Science in the Federal Government exemplary in 1957 still do so today. The book demonstrates that the history of science can be done as an integral part of political and social history, that the history of institutions need not be narrow and dull if it includes the human dimension of personalities and elites and social relationships. It succeeds admirably in treating technical aspects of science without letting them dominate the central organizational and human themes. Dupree's achievement has been and still is reassuring and inspiring. IsisTable of ContentsPrefacePreface to the First Edition1. First Attempts to Form a Policy, 1787-18002. Theory and Action in the Jeffersonian Era, 1800-18293. Practical Achievements in the Age of the Common Man, 1829-18424. The Fulfillment of Smithson's Will, 1829-18615. The Great Explorations and Survey's Will, 1829-18616. Bache and the Quest for a Central Scientific Organization, 1851-18617. The Civil War, 1861-18658. The Evolution of Research in Agriculture, 1862-19169. The Decline of Science in the military Services, 1865-189010. The Geological Survey, 1867-188511. The Allison Commission and the Department of Sceince, 1884-188612. Conservation, 1865-191613. Medicine and Public Health, 1865-191614. The Completion of the Federal Scientific Establishment15. Patterns of Government Research in Modern America, 1865-191616. The Impact of World War I, 1914-191817. Transition to a Business Era, 1919-192918. The Depression and the New Deal, 1929-193919. Prospect and Retrospect at the Beginning of a New Era, 1940ChronologyBibliographic NotesReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Structure and Society in Literary History Studies
Book SynopsisA new concluding chapter, written especially for the Johns Hopkins edition, presents a coherent and systematically developed survey of those poststructuralist positions most relevant to the placement of "Structure and Society in Literary Historywithin the critical context of the mid 1980s.Table of ContentsPreface to the Original EditionIntroduction: Toward a Theory of Literary HistoryChapter 1. Past Significance and Present Meaning in Literary HistoryChapter 2. The Concept of Tradition ReconsideredChapter 3. Past origins and Present Functions in American Literary HistoryChapter 4. Structuralism and Literary HistoryChapter 5. Metaphor and Historical Criticism: Shakespeare's Imagery RevisitedChapter 6. Structure and History in Narrative Perspective: The Problem of Point of View ReconsideredChapter 7. Text and History: Epilogue, 1984Index of Names
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Johns Hopkins University Press Toward an Urban Vision Ideas and Institutions in
Book Synopsis'Trade ReviewAn important book... Provocative, thoughtful, and worth reading. Journal of American History
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Johns Hopkins University Press Love and Love Sickness The Science of Sex Gender
Book SynopsisIt is a book for the educated layperson, who will find it replete with insights into the realm of human sexuality.
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Johns Hopkins University Press Virginia Woolf
Book Synopsis"A scholarly and original contribution to the autobiographical impulse at the heart of (Woolf's) ...writings".-Harold Bloom, Yale University.Trade ReviewFleishman has produced a valuable and impressive work of formalist criticism. He offers a thorough, incisive, and genuinely original analysis of Virginia Woolf's major novels. Even the most jaded of Woolf scholars will find new and relevant material in Fleishman's penetrating study. Virginia Quarterly Review
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Tenth Generation
Book SynopsisAn exceptionally important work... Rarely has the vision of God's experimental, intentional community been so convincingly and tellingly presented. -- InterpretationTable of ContentsPrefaceList of AbbreviationsChapter 1. Early Israel as the Kingdom or Yahweh: Thesis and MethodsChapter 2. The Mask of Yahweh Excursus: The Miracle at ZazChapter 3. The "Vengeance" of YahwehChapter 4. The Incident at Beth Baal PerorChapter 5. The 'Apiru movements in the Late Bronze AgeChapter 6. The "Sea-Peoples" in PalestineChapter 7. Trice and State in the Ancient World: The Nature of the biblical CommunityChapter 8. Toward a Biography of God: Religion and Politics as ReceiprocalsChapter 9. The Tenth Generation: A Summing UpbibliographyIndex of Biblical CitationsIndex of Subjects and Authors
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Johns Hopkins University Press Venice A Maritime Republic
Book SynopsisFrederic Lane has achieved what is the often unfulfilled dream of every historian who has devoted his entire work to the exploration of partial aspects of a single broad subject: he has given us a comprehensive, thoughtful, readable, beautifully illustrated general history of Venice from the origins to the beginning of decline.--'Speculum.'Trade ReviewStudents now have an analysis of Venice's fortunes over the whole course of its independent history that they can trust... A crisp and clearly visualized narrative. Times Literary Supplement The best one-volume history of Venice in any language. American Historical Review An up-to-date and comprehensive history of Venice has long been needed, and Professor Lane, as the doyen of historians of Venice, was the obvious man to supply it. -- J.H. Elliott New York Review of Books 1974 Frederic Lane has achieved what is the often unfulfilled dream of every historian who has devoted his entire work to the exploration of partial aspects of a single broad subject: he has given us a comprehensive, thoughtful, readable, beautifully illustrated general history of Venice from the origins to the beginning of decline. Speculum
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Wildlife Techniques Manual Volume 1
Book SynopsisTrade Reviewa great resource for practitioners.—Simone Ciuti, University College Dublin, Basic and Applied EcologyTable of ContentsVolume 1: ResearchList of ContributorsPrefaceAcknowledgments1 Research and Experimental DesignEdward O. Garton, Jocelyn L. Aycrigg, Courtney Conway, and Jon S. Horne2 Management and Analysis of Wildlife Ecology DataBret A. Collier and T. W. Schwertner3 Capturing and Handling Wild AnimalsNova J. Silvy, Roel R. Lopez, and Therese A. Catanach4 Chemical Immobilization of WildlifeMark L. Drew5 Use of Dogs in Wildlife Research and ManagementDavid K. Dahlgren, R. Dwayne Elmore, Deborah A. (Smith) Woollett, Aimee Hurt, Julie K. Young,Daniel Kinka, Edward B. Arnett, David Baines, and John W. Connelly6 Identifying and Handling Contaminant-Related Wildlife Mortality/MorbiditySteven R. Sheffield, Joseph P. Sullivan, and Elwood F. Hill7 Wildlife Health and Disease Surveillance, Investigation, and ManagementMarkus J. Peterson and Pamela J. FerroIdentification and Marking Techniques8 Criteria for Sex and Age of Birds and MammalsEddie K. Lyons, Michael A. Schroeder, and Leslie A. Robb9 Identification of Animals from Field SignsJohn M. Tomecek and Jonah Evans10 Techniques of Marking WildlifeNova J. Silvy, Roel R. Lopez, and Markus J. Peterson11 Radiotelemetry, Remote Monitoring, and Data AnalysesNova J. Silvy and Therese A. Catanach12 Estimating Animal AbundanceBrian L. Pierce, Roel R. Lopez, and Nova J. Silvy13 Use of Remote Cameras in Wildlife EcologyIsrael D. Parker, Roel R. Lopez, and Shawn L. Locke14 Population Analysis in Wildlife EcologyDouglas H. Johnson and Stephen J. Dinsmore15 Use of Bioacoustics Monitoring Systems in Wildlife ResearchJoseph M. Szewczak and Michael L. Morrison16 Tracking Wildlife with Radar TechniquesTherese A. Catanach and Nova J. Silvy17 Use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Wildlife EcologyRoderic G. Rosario, Megan K. Clayton, and Ian T. Gates18 Invertebrate Sampling Methods for Use in Wildlife ResearchTherese A. Catanach19 Vegetation Sampling and MeasurementKenneth F. Higgins, Kurt J. Jenkins, Daniel W. Uresk, Lora B. Perkins, Kent C. Jensen,Jack E. Norland, Robert W. Klaver, and David E. Naugle20 Techniques for Wildlife Nutritional EcologyLisa A. Shipley, Rachel C. Cook, and David G. Hewitt21 Simulation Modeling in Wildlife ResearchHsiao-Hsuan (Rose) Wang and William E. Grant22 Using Geospatial Technologies in Wildlife StudiesHumberto L. Perotto-Baldivieso, Sasathorn Tapaneeyakul, and Zachary J. Pearson23 Animal BehaviorJessica R. Young24 Reproduction and HormonesHeather M. Bryan and John D. Harder25 Conservation Genetics and Molecular Ecology in Wildlife ManagementSara J. Oyler-McCance, Emily K. Latch, and Paul L. LebergCommon and Scientific Names of Animals and PlantsLiterature CitedIndex—Volume 2: ManagementList of ContributorsAcknowledgments26 Strengthening Connections between Research and ManagementLeonard A. Brennan, Stephen J. Demaso, Joseph P. Sands, and Matthew J. Schnupp27 Ethics in Wildlife Science and ConservationMarkus J. Peterson, M. Nils Peterson, Tarla Rai Peterson, and Erica von Essen28 Human Dimensions of Wildlife ManagementShari L. Rodriguez and M. Nils Peterson29 Communications and OutreachSusan K. Jacobson, Hannah O. Brown, and Ben S. Lowe30 Conflict in Wildlife Science and ConservationAndrea M. Feldpausch-Parker and Tarla Rai Peterson31 Adaptive Management in Wildlife ConservationJohn F. Organ, Daniel J. Decker, Shawn J. Riley, John E. McDonald Jr., and Shane P. Mahoney32 Forest Management for WildlifeSeth W. Bigelow, Carolyn G. Mahan, Amanda D. Rodewald, L. Mike Conner, and Lora L. Smith33 Managing Rangelands for WildlifeVernon C. Bleich, Michael W. Oehler, and John G. Kie34 Managing Inland Wetlands for WildlifeMurray K. Laubhan, Sammy L. King, and Leigh H. Fredrickson35 Management of Coastal Wetlands for WildlifeJohn Andrew Nyman, Chris Elphick, and Greg Shriver36 Managing Farmlands for WildlifeRichard E. Warner, Jeffery W. Walk, and James R. Herkert37 Management and Research of Wildlife in Urban EnvironmentsRobert A. McCleery, Christopher E. Moorman, Mark C. Wallace, and David Drake38 Managing Surface Disturbed Lands for WildlifeTherese A. Catanach and Nova J. Silvy39 Managing Disturbances to Wildlife and HabitatsChad J. Parent, Fidel Hernandez, and Andrea Bruno40 Managing State Lands for WildlifeThomas J. Ryder and John F. Organ41 Managing Federal Lands for WildlifeBruce Beard, R. Patrick Bixler, Tom Darden, Buddy Huffaker,Mark Madison, and James G. Van Ness42 Managing North American Indigenous Peoples' Wildlife ResourcesHeather Stricker, Paige M. Schmidt, Jonathan Gilbert, Jim Dau, Diana L. Doan-Crider,Serra Hoagland, Michel T. Kohl, Claudia A. Perez, Lawrence J. Van Daele,Matthew B. Van Daele, and Daniel Dupont43 The Role of Nongovernment Organizations in Wildlife ManagementHeather A. Mathewson, James J. Giocomo, and Steven P. Riley44 Harvest ManagementJohn W. Connelly, James H. Gammonley, and Thomas W. Keegan45 Identification and Management of Wildlife DamageKurt C. Vercauteren, Richard A. Dolbeer, Aaron B. Shiels, and Eric M. Gese46 Managing Terrestrial Invasive SpeciesTimothy E. Fulbright and Tyler A. Campbell47 Ecology and Management of Small PopulationsJon S. Horne, L. Scott Mills, J. Michael Scott, Katherine M. Strickler, and Stanley A. Temple48 Captive Propagation and TranslocationDavid Drake and Stanley A. Temple49 Environmental Impact Assessment and Habitat Conservation PlansCharles J. Randel III, Howard O. Clark Jr., Darren P. Newman, and Thomas P. Dixon50 Managing Wildlife in a Changing ClimateDouglas B. Inkley and Bruce A. SteinCommon and Scientific Names of Animals and Plants Literature CitedIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press American National Security Seventh Edition
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword, General John AbizaidPrefaceAbbreviations and AcronymsPart I: National Security Policy1. The International Setting2. Traditional American Approaches to National Security3. The Evolution of American National Security PolicyPart II: National Security Policy4. Presidential Leadership and the Executive Branch5. Congress6. Homeland Security7. Intelligence and National Security8. The Role of the Military in the Policy Process9. Planning, Budgeting, and Management10. Putting the Pieces TogetherPart III: Ways and Means of National Strategy11. Diplomacy and Information12. Economics13. Military Power14. Conventional War15. Irregular Threats16. Counterterrorism, Counterinsurgency, and Stability Operations17. Nuclear PolicyPart IV: International and Regional Security Issues18. East Asia19. South Asia20. The Middle East21. Sub-Saharan Africa22. Russia23. Europe24. Latin AmericaPart V: Current and Future Issues in American National Security Policy25. Looking AheadNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Science of Conjecture
Book SynopsisThe Science of Conjecture provides a history of rational methods of dealing with uncertainty and explores the coming to consciousness of the human understanding of risk.Trade ReviewA remarkable book. Mr. Franklin writes clearly and exhibits a wry wit. But he also ranges knowledgeably across many disciplines and over many centuries. Wall Street Journal The Science of Conjecture opens an old chest of human attempts to draw order from havoc and wipes clean the rust from some cast-off classical tools that can now be reused to help build a framework for the unpredictable future. Science Franklin's style is clear and fluent, with an occasional sly Gibbonian aside to make the reader chuckle. New Criterion An admirably accessible study written in a crisp prose. It presents the reader with anarching historical perspective throughout many a century of human action. -- Giora Hon Centaurus Franklin gives a magisterial account of matters as diverse as the Talmud, Justinian's Digest, torture, witch hunts, Tudor treason trials, ancient and medieval astronomy and physics, humanist historiography, scholastic philosophy, speculations in public debt, and 17th century mathematics. His treatment of medieval law is among the best I have ever read. International Journal of Evidence and Proof Franklin's book is magnificent... Think of [it] as a non-fiction equivalent of Tolstoy's War and Peace. -- Peter Tillers The Jurist The Science of Conjecture is a masterly work, beautifully written, and based on encyclopaedic research... It is simply a tour de force that is unlikely to be surpassed for many a year. -- Barry Miller The Thomist Statistics teachers who like to sprinkle a little history and philosophy into their classes will find much here to delight and challenge them... This is a serious and scholarly work that I expect often will inform my teaching. -- Richard J. Cleary Journal of the American Statistical Association [This book has given me] sheer enjoyment in its density of strange information, in the wit and clarity if its writing, and in the vigour of its argumentation. I recommend it unreservedly to all interested in its subject. -- Oliver Mayo Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics This is the intellectual book of the year, and it ought to become one of the great classics of intellectual history. -- Scott Campbell Interdisciplinary Science Reviews The strength of The Science of Conjecture lies in its panoramic exposition of developments across the centuries and across intellectual disciplines and human endeavors. It is, as one reviewer wrote, 'a magesterial account of matters as diverse as the Talmud, Justinian's Digest, torture, witch hunts, Tudor treason trials, ancient and medieval astronomy and physics, humanist histriography, scholastic philosophy, speculations in public debt, and 17th century mathematics.' -- D. H. Kaye Law and History Review A remarkable book. Mr. Franklin writes clearly and exhibits a wry wit. But he also ranges knowledgeably across many disciplines and over many centuries. There are several reasons to read this book, but perhaps the best reason is its contemporary relevance. The lessons he discusses have pertinence to an age like ours, which has witnessed a gradual waning of faith in the objectivity of the relation of uncertain evidence to conclusion. Wall Street Journal In The Science of Conjecture, James Franklin shows us how deeply and subtly jurists and philosophers from ancient Greece onwards have explored how we can deal rationally with real-life cases (law cases, for instance, or scientific experiments) where the link between cause and effect is not obvious. -- J.M. Coetzee The Australian Since many in the nominalist/empiricist/positivist tradition deny that we can know natures, this book has a place in teacher education as well as legal education for the challenges it poses the reader on how we know, and how well we know, through induction, perception and abstraction. Metascience The text has an even wider importance in that it signals the need for more, not less, study of the history, philosophy and social studies in science to occupy a greater space in undergraduate degrees so that an educated electorate is better able to evaluate what the STEM community tells us is good for the progress of society. MetascienceTable of ContentsContents: Preface Chapter 1: The Ancient Law of Proof Egypt and Mesopotamia; The Talmud; Roman Law; Proof and Presumptions; Indian LawChapter 2: The Medieval Law of Evidence: Suspicion, Half-proof, and the Inquisition Dark Age Ordeals; The Gregorian Revolution; The Glossators Invent Half-Proof; Presumptions in Canon Law; Grades of Evidence and Torture; The Postglossators Bartolus and Baldus; The Competed Theory; The Inquisition; Law in the EastChapter 3: Renaissance Law Henry VIII Presumed Wed; Tudor Treason Trials; Continental Laws: The Treatises on Presumptions; The Witch Inquisitors; English Legal Theory and the Reasonable ManChapter 4: The Doubting Conscience and Moral Certainty Penance and Doubts; The Doctrine of Probabilism; Suarez: Negative and Positive Doubt; Grotius, Silhon, and the Morality of the State; Hobbes and the Risk of Attack; The Scandal of Laxism; English Casuists Pursue the Middle Way; Juan Caramuel Lobkowitz, Prince of Laxists; Pascal's Provincial LettersChapter 5: Rhetoric, Logic, Theory The Greek Vocabulary of Probability; The Sophists and the Art of Persuasion; Aristotle's Rhetoric and Logic; The Rhetoric to Alexander; Roman Rhetoric: Cicero and Quintilian; Islamic Logic; The Scholastic Dialectical Syllogism; Probability in Ordinary Language; Humanist Rhetoric; Late Scholastic LogicChapter 6: Hard Science Observation and Theory; Aristotle's Not-by-Chance Argument; Averaging of Observations in Greek Astronomy; The Simplicity of Theories; Nicole Oresme on Relative Frequency; Copernicus; Kepler Harmonizes Observations; Galileo on the Probability of Copernican HypothesisChapter 7: Soft Science and History The Physiognomics; Divination and Astrology; The Empiric School of Medicine on Drug Testing; The Talmud and Maimonides on Majorities; Vernacular Averaging and Quality Control; Experimentation in Biology; The Authority of Histories; The Authenticity of Documents; Valla and the Donation of Constantine; Cano and the Signs of True HistoriesChapter 8: Philosophy: Action and Induction Carneades's Mitigated Skepticism; The Epicureans on Inference from Signs; Inductive Skepticism and Avicenna's Reply; Aquinas on Tendencies; Scotus and Ockham on Induction; Nicholas of Autrecourt; The Decline of the West; Bacon and Descartes: Certainty? or Moral Certainty?; The Jesuits and Hobbes on Induction; Pascal's Deductivist Philosophy of ScienceChapter 9: Religion: Laws of God, Laws of Nature The Argument from Design; The Church Fathers; Inductive Skepticism by Revelation; John of Salisbury; Maimonides on Creation; Are Laws of Nature Necessary?; The Reasonableness of Christianity; Pascal's WagerChapter 10: Aleatory Contracts: Insurance, Annuities, and Bets The Price of Peril; Doubtful Claims in Jewish Law; Olivi on Usury and Future Profits; Pricing Life Annuities; Speculation in Public Debt; Insurance Rates; Renaissance Bets and Speculation; Lots and Lotteries; Commerce and the CasuistsChapter 11: Dice Games of Chance in Antiquity; The Medieval Manuscript on the Interrupted Game; Cardano; Gamblers and Casuists; Galileo's Fragment; De Mere and Roberval; The Fermat-Pascal Correspondence; Huygens' Reckoning in Games of Chance; CaramuelChapter 12: Conclusion Subsymbolic Probability and the Transition to Symbols; Kinds of Probability and the Stages of Discovering Them; Why Not Earlier?; Two Parallel Histories; The Genius of the Scholastics and the Orbit of Aristotle; The Place of Law in the history of IdeasEpilogue: The Survival of Unquantified Probability The Port-Royal Logic; Leibniz's Logic of Probability; To the PresentAppendix: Review of Work before 1660
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Johns Hopkins University Press Equal Care
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